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This short communication is a response to [MuS93] investigating their ACS system specification. The main point in this paper is that executing specifications can be used as a feasible way of validating them. It is essential to have tool support which enables one to write a generally not executable specification, and then prototype (parts of) it directly in the specification language, without translating it into some other prototyping language.
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Larsen, P.G. Response to “the formal specification of safety requirements for storing explosives”. Formal Aspects of Computing 6, 565–568 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01211868
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01211868